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2. List of roof shapes - Wikipedia

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   The steep slope may be curved. An element of the Second Empire architectural style (Mansard style) in the U.S. Neo-Mansard, Faux Mansard, False Mansard, Fake Mansard: Common in the 1960s and 70s in the U.S., these roofs often lack the double slope of the Mansard roof and are often steeply sloped walls with a flat roof. Unlike the Second Empire ...

3. Can You Identify the Most Common House Styles? - AOL

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   The most common architectural house and home styles in America include colonial, Cape Cod, ranch, and more. Learn how to identify these house styles.

4. Dutch Colonial Revival architecture - Wikipedia

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   Dutch Colonial is a style of domestic architecture, primarily characterized by gambrel roofs having curved eaves along the length of the house. Modern versions built in the early 20th century are more accurately referred to as "Dutch Colonial Revival", a subtype of the Colonial Revival style.

5. List of house types - Wikipedia

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   Brick ranch-style house. A ranch-style house or rambler is one-story, low to the ground, with a low-pitched roof, usually rectangular, L- or U-shaped with deep overhanging eaves. [13] Ranch styles include: California ranch: the "original" ranch style, developed in the United States in the early 20th century, before World War II [14]

6. Romanesque secular and domestic architecture - Wikipedia

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   Early houses might have an open stone hearth and a smoke hole in the roof. The interiors of houses developed with separate chambers and partitions of stone or wood. Additional rooms might be accessed from an external wooden gallery, cantilevered from holes and corbels along the walls, as seen the 13th-century house at Poreč, Croatia.

7. American historic carpentry - Wikipedia

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   Over 5,000 relief cottages after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake were built using single-wall construction. Box houses (boxed house, box frame, [16] box and strip, [17] piano box, single-wall, board and batten, and many other names) have minimal framing in the corners and widely spaced in the exterior walls, but like the vertical plank wall ...